Dear ______: I totally get it: finding a way to keep muddling through in the midst of stress isn’t always the best answer. Sometimes it helps to find a way to actually remove a layer of stress. Can You Remove a Layer of Stress? There are, perhaps, two ways to approach this, on the timely-but-probably-horrible […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year C, 3rd Sunday after Epiphany, Luke 4:14-21
The lectionary is only intermittently committed to the narrative line of Scripture. This Sunday, the Third after Epiphany, brings us back to Luke (specifically Luke 4:14-21), but we’ve skipped an important bit. Two weeks ago we had the Baptism of the Lord from Luke, but we jump right past his temptation in the wilderness, the […]
Letters to a Young Pastor: Dealing with Stress
Dear ______: You are absolutely right: It has been far too long since we’ve written to each other. Thanks for the update on your life in this final year of seminary. It does sound really stressful. You probably feel like the weight of the whole world is on your shoulders — like poor old Atlas. […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year C, 2nd Sunday after Epiphany, John 2:1-11
This is the first time since I started writing these “Monday Meditations” that the Gospel text is something I’ve previously published on — like not on my own website, but in an actual book. John 2:1-11 Back in 2015 I had the privilege of writing the “Theological Perspective” essay on John 2:1-12 for Feasting on […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year C, Baptism of the Lord, Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
In the West, the first Sunday after Epiphany celebrates “The Baptism of the Lord.” In Year C the text is Luke 3:15-17, 21-22. This is the event which Eastern Orthodoxy celebrated on Epiphany itself, or as they often call it, the Theophany. By way of definitions: “Epiphany” means “appearance” or “manifestation.” In the West we […]
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